The Hermetic museum, restored and enlarged : most faithfully instructing all disciples of the sopho-spagyric art how that greatest and truest medicine of the philosopher's stone may be found and held. Now first done into English from the Latin origin

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THE GOLDEN TRACT

THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS.

BY AN ANONYMOUS GERMAN PHILOSOPHER.

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THE GOLDEN TRACTCONCERNING THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE.

ORTU V re der, and true en quirer into the SecretS

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Is any one complain of the dissicut ty of our Art, let hi mknow that in iiself it is persectly Simple, and can preSent noobstacle to thos e who love God, and are held worthy by Him os this knowledge. Is any one blanae me sor setting sortii the

through the mercy of God. Though I had diligently studi ed this

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THE GOLDEN TRACT

CONCERNING THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS.

ANCIENT as weli as modern philosophers, most belOVed

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but two things, nam ely a body and an acid fas he calis it) arerequired, and that a liquid must be combined with a dry thinglest the dry thing should be consumed by the fi re, in order that

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by the moist thing it may be preserved Dom Such combu Stion. ToSuch a conclusion, i ghtly accepted. I gladi y subscribe. Butfro in the above mentioned philosophical dicta hONever obscurelyworded they may be) it is clearer than day that the substance of Our BleSSed Sione is one salthough different sages cali it bydifferent nam es), and that Nature has made it ready to the hanclof the adept. having xvilled this one thing, and no other thing in ali the worid, to be the material of the Stone. This Μalter lies besore the eyes of ali; everybody sees it; tolaches it, loves it, buti nows it not. It is glorious and vile, preci ous and of Smallaccount, and is Mund OVerywhere. Theophrastus Paracelsus,

in his book concerning The Tincture of Physical Things, calis it the Red Lion, whicli is nam ed by many, but known by sexv. Hermes, in the first chapter of his Treatise, calis it Quicli Silver coagulated in iis innermost chambers.' In the Rosary of the Philosophers' it goes by the nam e of Sali. But,

to be bries, our Matter has aS many nam es as there are things in

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minerat, pure and Clear, heing Conjoined by the heatos frienciship, AS this matter requires, and caret utly Cooked untii the two thingsbecome one thing, &C. Basilius Valentinus Lib. Nat. et Superna , c. 4) SayS I Wili mal e this known to thee in ali truth sor the love of God that the root of philosophic Sulphur, Whichis a heavenly Spirit, is uni ted in the fame materiat with the rootof the spiritual and Supernatural mercury, and the principie Os spiritual salt-out of whicli is made the Stone, and not out os severat things. That universat thin g, the greatest treasure Ofearthly wiSilom, is one thing, and the principies of three thingsare found in one, whicli has power to change ali metals intoone. The three thingS are the true spirit Of mercury, and thesoul os sulphur, uni ted to spiritual sali, and clwelling in One